| House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Training

Footnotes

Chapter 1 The Committee’s Review

[1]       House of Representatives Standing Order 215(c) empowers standing committees to inquire into the annual reports of government departments and authorities that have been tabled in the House of Representatives subject to a number of conditions.

[2]       The report is available online at: http://www.dest.gov.au/portfolio_department/dest_information/publications_resources/profiles/dest_annual_report_2006_2007.htm.

[3]       DEST, Annual Report 2006-07, p. 256.

Chapter 2 National vocational education and training system

[1]       Treasury, Intergenerational Report 2007, http://www.treasury.gov.au/igr/IGR2007.asp

[2]       NCVER, A Well Skilled Future, 2008.

[3]       DEST, Annual Report 2006-2007, p. 113.

[4]       DEEWR, Submission 1, p. 11; DEST, Annual Report 2006-2007, p. 113.

[5]       CSIRO, Growing the Green Collar Economy: Skills and labour challenges in reducing our greenhouse emissions and national environmental footprint, June 2008, p. 29.

[6]       DEEWR, Annual Report 2007-08, p. 98.

[7]       DEST, Annual Report 2006-07, p. 95; DEEWR, Annual Report 2007-08, p. 98.

[8]       See, 2005-2008 Commonwealth- State Agreement for Skilling Australia’s Workforce; State and Territory Bilateral Agreements, and VET Plans: http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/training_skills/publications_resources/agreement/2008.htm

[9]       DEST, Annual Report 2006-07, p. 105.

[10]     DEST, Annual Report 2006-07, p. 106.

[11]     DEST, Skilling Australia, 2005-2008 Commonwealth State Agreement for Skilling Australia’s Workforce, p. 47.

[12]     DEST, Skilling Australia, 2005-2008 Commonwealth State Agreement for Skilling Australia’s Workforce, p. 38.

[13]     http://www.ntis.gov.au/Default.aspx

[14]     See, Skills Australia, Discussion Paper: Future Governance of the National Vocational Education and Training System, 2008, p. 2.

[15]     Skills Australia, Discussion Paper: Future Governance of the National Vocational Education and Training System, 2008, p. 13.

[16]     DEEWR, Annual Report 2007-08, p. 100.

[17]     In 2006, about eighty per cent of all publicly recorded enrolments in training packages were in just 180 of the 1 709 available. Around 70 qualifications were not used at all in 2006 (NSOC, 2008, pp. 16-17); as reported in OECD, Learning for Jobs: OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training: Australia, November 2008, p. 36.

[18]     Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations website:

http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/training_skills/policy_issues_reviews/training_package_development_endorsement_process_2008.htm.

[19]     DEEWR, Submission 1, p. 12.

[20]     DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 5 February 2009, p. 3.

[21]     DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 5 February 2009, p. 4.

[22]     Construction and Property Services Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 13 November 2008, p. 2.

[23]     Dusseldorp Skills Forum, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 4.

[24]     DEST, Annual Report 2006-07, p. 106.

[25]     DEST, Annual Report 2006-07, p. 106.

[26]     OECD, Learning for Jobs; OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training: Australia, November, 2008, p. 13.

[27]     ElectroComms and Energy Utilities Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 13 November 2008, p. 3.

[28]     DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 5 February 2009, p. 4.

[29]     DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 6 June 2008, p. 47.

[30]     AIG, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 21.

[31]     NCVER, Survey of Employer Use and Views of Vocational Education and Training (2005), as reported in DEST, Annual Report, p. 107.

[32]     NCVER, Survey of Employer Use and Views of Vocational Education and Training (2007); available at http://www.ncver.edu.au/statistics/surveys/seuv07/highlights.html

[33]     TAFE Directors Australia, Transcript of Evidence, 18 September 2008, p. 3.

[34]     DEEWR, Supplementary Submission 1.2, p. 7.

[35]     AIG, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 20.

[36]     AIG, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 20.

[37]     DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 5 February 2009, p. 4.

[38]     Group Training Australia Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 43.

[39]     ElectroComms and Energy Utilities Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 13 November 2008, p. 6.

[40]     Manufacturing Skills Australia, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 23.

[41]     Resources and Infrastructure Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 26.

[42]     Time domain reflectometry.

[43]     ElectroComms and Energy Utilities Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 13 November 2008, p. 6.

[44]     Construction and Property Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 13 November 2008, p. 6.

[45]     http://www.dsf.org.au//papers/204/GreenSkillsMEDIARELEASE_2.pdf

[46]     ElectroComms and Energy Utilities Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 13 November 2008, p. 10.

[47]     CSIRO, Transcript of Evidence, 28 August, 2008, p. 3.

[48]     Manufacturing Skills Australia, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 25.

[49]     NCVER, Finding Common Ground: is there a place for sustainability education in VET?, 2007.

[50]     Dusseldorp Skills Forum, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 7.

Cf. ElectroComms and Energy Utilities Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 13 November 2008, p. 10: ‘In the past there were electives that actually picked that up but nobody took them. We had them available but nobody took them.’

[51]     DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 5 February 2009, p. 6.

[52]     DEEWR Transcript of Evidence, 6 June 2008, p. 41.

[53]     AIG, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 11.

[54]     AIG, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 11.

[55]     DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 6 June 2008, pp. 40-41.

[56]     Construction and Property Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 13 November 2008, p. 4.

[57]     ElectroComms and Energy Utilities Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 13 November 2008, p. 3.

[58]     ElectroComms and Energy Utilities Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 13 November 2008, p. 8.

[59]     NCVER, Transcript of Evidence, 22 July 2008, p. 4.

[60]     AIG, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 17.

[61]     TAFE Directors Australia, Transcript of Evidence, 18 September 2008, p. 10.

[62]     DEEWR, Submission 1, p. 4.

[63]     DEEWR, Submission 1, p. 4.

[64]     Group Training Australia, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 54.

[65]     DEEWR, Supplementary Submission 1.1, p. 4.

[66]     DEEWR, Supplementary Submission 1.2, p. 7.

[67]     OECD, Learning for Jobs OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and training: Australia, November 2008, p. 28.

[68]     OECD, Learning for Jobs OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and training: Australia, November 2008, p. 29.

[69]     NCVER, Transcript of Evidence, 22 July 2008, p. 7

[70]     NCVER, Transcript of Evidence, 22 July 2008, p. 7.

[71]     DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 5 February 2009, p. 9.

[72]     NCVER, Transcript of Evidence, 22 July 2008, p. 7.

[73]     Resources and Infrastructure Industry Skills Council, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2009, p. 22.

[74]     Manufacturing Skills Australia, Exhibit 1, p. 14.

[75]     OECD, Learning for Jobs OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and training: Australia, November 2008, p. 28.

[76]     Skills Australia, Industry leadership: the next steps (preparatory paper for Strategic Industry Forum, 20 February, 2009), p. 10.

[77]     NCVER, Transcript of Evidence, 22 July 2008, p. 7.

[78]     The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Speech, Big Skills Conference, Sydney, 5 March 2009.

[79]     Skills Australia, Discussion Paper: Future Governance of the National Vocational Education and Training System, 2008.

[80]     See, Skills Australia, Industry leadership: the next steps (preparatory paper for Strategic Industry Forum, 20 February, 2009); Strengthening our skills base in uncertain times, (Communiqué issued following Strategic Industry Forum, 20 February 2009)

[81]     Skills Australia, Industry leadership: the next steps (preparatory paper for Strategic Industry Forum, 20 February, 2009, p.10.

[82]     The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Speech, Big Skills Conference, Sydney, 5 March 2009.

[83]     The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Speech, Big Skills Conference, Sydney, 5 March 2009.

Chapter 3 Decline in Enrolments in Enabling Sciences

[1]       DEEWR, Supplementary Submission 1.2, p. 5.

[2]       DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 6 June 2008, p. 2.

[3]       DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 6 June 2008, p. 3.

[4]       DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 6 June 2008, p. 2.

[5]       DEEWR, Supplementary Submission 1.1, p. 3.

[6]       Dr Ridd, Submission 2, p. 2.

[7]       DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 6 June 2008, p. 13.

[8]       DEEWR, Supplementary Submission 1.2, p. 4.

[9]       Dr Ridd, Submission 2, p. 2.

[10]     See for example, ACDS, Trends in Science Education (1998); I Dobson, Science at the Crossroads? A study of trends in university science from Dawkins to now 1989 -2003, ACDS, October, 2003; Is the Study of Science in Decline, ACDS Occasional Paper No.3, November, 2003; Ian Dobson, Sustaining Science: University Science in the Twenty-First Century, ACDS, February, 2007.

[11]     Ian Dobson, Sustaining Science: University Science in the Twenty-First Century, ACDS, February, 2007, p. 71.

[12]     Ian Dobson, Sustaining Science: University Science in the Twenty-First Century, ACDS, February, 2007, p. 71.

[13]     Ian Dobson, Sustaining Science: University Science in the Twenty-First Century, ACDS, February, 2007, p. 71.

[14]     J Ainley, J Kos, M Nicholas,  Participation in Science, Mathematics and Technology in Australian Education, ACER Research Monograph No.63, August, 2008., p. 1.

[15]     DEEWR, Submission 1, p. 2.

[16]     Terry Lyons, ‘The Puzzle of falling Enrolments in Physics and Chemistry Courses: Putting Some Pieces Together’, Research in Science Education (2006) 36 285.

[17]     ACDS, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 71.

[18]     J Ainley, J Kos, M Nicholas, Participation in Science, Mathematics and Technology in Australian Education, ACER Research Monograph No.63, August, 2008, p. 82.

[19]     ACDS, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 71.

[20]     FASTS, Transcript of Evidence, 16 October 2008, p. 5.

[21]     Dr Ridd, Submission 2 Attachment D - STEM Discussion Paper Response, p. 28.

[22]     ACDS, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008,  pp. 71-72.

[23]     ACER, Highlights from TIMSS 2007 from Australia’s Perspective (2008), p. 8.

[24]     DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 6 June 2008, p. 3.

[25]     J Ainley, J Kos, M Nicholas, Participation in Science, Mathematics and Technology in Australian Education, ACER Research Monograph No.63, August, 2008, p. 83.

[26]     ACDS, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p.72.

[27]     FASTS, Transcript of Evidence, 16 October 2008, p. 5.

[28]     FASTS, Transcript of Evidence, 16 October 2008, p. 5.

[29]     ACDS, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 72.

[30]     DEEWR, Supplementary Submission 1.2, p. 1.

[31]     DEEWR, Transcript of Evidence, 6 June 2008, p. 3.

[32]     DEEWR, Submission 1.2, p. 2.

[33]     CSIRO, Transcript of Evidence, 16 October 2008, p. 5.

[34]     ANSTO, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 56

[35]     ANSTO, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, p. 56.

[36]     ANSTO, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, 2008, p. 57.

[37]     ANSTO, Transcript of Evidence, 14 November 2008, 2008, p. 57.

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